Settlement Association

[DerekC]

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, suffragist and physician, was mayor of Aldeburgh and the first female mayor in Britain. She had strong local connections, but was born in Whitechapel, London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Lancaster also has a church that is dedicated to St Boniface.

 

[Springs Branch]

Tebay also lies on the course of the River Lune.

 

[Calthrop]

White Notley, Essex -- near Braintree -- also has a pub called the Cross Keys.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ely in Cambridgeshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Etheldreda.

 

[Calthrop]

Ely's name means "eel island". Another settlement with a name to do with Anguilla anguilla (in this case, possibly -- there are alternative explanations also) is Ellingstring, North Yorkshire (in Wensleydale): = ("if so") farmstead at the place where eels are caught.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Bellerby in North Yorkshire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Leyburn Poor Law Union.

 

[Calthrop]

Bewdley, Worcestershire, has also had a history of being afflicted by frequent flooding.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Apperley in Gloucestershire also lies on the line of the River Severn.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

For most of its history, the village of Apperley has been the largest settlement in the civil parish of Deerhurst. However, for many years the only parish church was St Mary's Priory Church, which is in the village Deerhurst. In 1856, the Church of England finally had a church built in Apperley; this is Holy Trinity, which is a Romanesque Revival building in red brick designed by Francis Penrose.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Oxenton in Gloucestershire was also once under the jurisdiction of the Tewkesbury Poor Law Union.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The nearby village of Gotherington also has a large number of listed buildings - 22 in Oxenton and 20 in Gotherington.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Great Washbourne in Gloucestershire was also once administered by the Hundred of Tewkesbury.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Great Washbourne has the Church of St Mary, whilst the adjoining village of Little Washbourne has St Mary's Church.

 

[DerekC]

Little Washbourne has a pub, the Hobnails Inn, owned by Quality Inns of Gloucestershire Ltd of Saul, Glos.

 

[Calthrop]

There is also a settlement called Saul in Co. Down; formerly a separate village, now pretty much a suburb of Downpatrick.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Ripon in North Yorkshire also has a ruined Cistercian monastery within its environs.

 

[Calthrop]

Ripon, with its racecourse, has the distinction of having staged Britain's first horse-race specifically for female riders, in 1723. In the same general sphere of efforts to bring women into sports hitherto regarded as exclusively male: in 1895, the British Ladies' Football Club was founded -- and subsequently came into action -- founded jointly by Lady Florence Dixie, and by one Nettie J. Honeyball: which has got to be a pseudonym, and indeed was. This lady's real name is apparently not known; but it would seem that she was a Londoner, and long lived in Crouch End, now in the London Borough of Haringey.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

Among the more prominent building in Crouch End is the modernistic Hornsey Town Hall, built by the Municipal Borough of Hornsey as their seat of government in 1933 - 1935. The architect was the New Zealand-born Reginald Harold Uren FRIBA (1906 – 1988), who worked in the United Kingdom for most of his career. One of his last projects (in 1965) were the St George's Swimming Pools in Shadwell, East London.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hammersmith was also once administered by the ancient Hundred of Ossulstone.

 

[EbbwJunction1]

In 1930, Gustav Holst composed Hammersmith, a work for military band (later rewritten for orchestra), reflecting his impressions of the area, having lived across the river in Barnes for nearly forty years. It begins with a haunting musical depiction of the River Thames flowing underneath Hammersmith Bridge. Holst was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the elder of the two children of Adolph von Holst, a professional musician, and his wife, Clara Cox, née Lediard. She was of mostly British descent, daughter of a respected solicitor from Cirencester; the Holst side of the family was of mixed Swedish, Latvian and German ancestry, with at least one professional musician in each of the previous three generations.

 

[Calthrop]

Cirencester is fairly outstanding -- even in Britain -- for the number of potential different pronunciations of the name; all of them valid by somebody's reckoning: a rich source of bonkers limericks which tinker accordingly, with the spelling of other words. Rather appropriately, Pam Ayres, the much-loved "naive / comic poet", shall we say (not meaning that in a disparaging way), lives near Cirencester. She was born at Stanford in the Vale, Oxfordshire.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Stanford Dingley in Berkshire also has a church that is dedicated to St Denys.

 

[Calthrop]

Seaford, East Sussex, also has a pub called the Old Boot.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Hellingly in East Sussex also lies on the line of the River Cuckmere.

 

[D6130]

Hellingley in East Sussex also lies on the line of the River Cuckmere.

Pedant alert: Correct spelling Hellingly - pronounced Helling-lye.

Meanwhile, Whittingham in Lancashire was also the location of a large mental hospital.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Walmer Bridge in Lancashire was also once administered by the Hundred of Amounderness.

 

[Calthrop]

(Re the Hellingly and Whittingham mental hospitals as per @D6130's in post #24,955: both hospitals were served at one time by unusual short rail branch lines, owned and run by the hospital administrations; though this exact kind of stuff is of course off-limits for associations, in this game !)

Walmer Bridge in Lancashire was also once administered by the Hundred of Amounderness.

I learn that the first recorded mention of Walmer Bridge was in the chartulary* of Cockersand Abbey, in 1251. Said Abbey was in the village of Cockerham, a little way south of Lancaster.

* My new word for the day ! Means "a place where charters or records are kept".

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Potters Brook in Lancashire also lies on the line of the River Cocker.

This is the Lancashire River Cocker, not the one in Cumbria.

 

[Calthrop]

Being a bit cheeky: Snape, Suffolk (near Saxmundham) also features -- here, in fact, as the exact surname and that only -- the surname of a prominent character in the oeuvre of J.K. Rowling.